Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Eisenhower's popularity in Texas is also dropping steadily, an undercurrent of McCarthyism continues to swell. Two weeks ago, State Secretary Ben Shepard revoked the organizing privileges of three independent unions, claiming they were Communist controlled. His charges have not been proven, and it is generally felt that they are designed to boost his chances for a gubernatorial nomination. Experts feel that McCarthy himself is popular enough in Texas to win almost anything except a presidential race. Indeed, any Republican would lose. It looks as if Texas will be back in the Democratic fold come...
Then one day, in a manner as yet undiscovered, the conditions for reproduction and fertilization occur. Male desert locusts come on the scene, and the quiet females suddenly forsake their love of solitude. Side by side with their new consorts, they swell the deadly locust swarm, trapped in the toils of their own mob psychology...
...future, the whole field promises to be revolutionized by the effective development of a power plant driven by atomic energy. As military planes get bigger and faster, private planes grow more economical to operate. Since the last war, the booming air transportation industry has aided the airplane manufacturers to swell the volume of planes produced...
Divorced. Sonny Tufts, 42, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.), blond cinemactor (Swell Guy, Glory at Sea); by Barbara Lorayne Tufts, 40; after nearly 15 years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
...casual amateur is the one who takes a picture of his baby from 20 feet away, forgets to wind his film, and cannot tell a thyratron from a réseau.† He is looked down on by experts, but it is he who provides the vast ground swell of enthusiasm for photography, and he has helped pile up the statistics of photography's tremendous growth...